Add in 15 off 50 coupon and it comes to 335 after rebates. Add in AmEx savings and TD cashback and you're close to 300 net cost for everything. Not too bad considering similar performance intel builds cost 300+ for the processor alone.

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My first SD post!

I just picked up a decent deal on a barebones computer @ TigerDirect that I haven't seen on SD yet. Specs are:

Add in 15 off 50 coupon and it comes to 335 after rebates. Add in AmEx savings and TD cashback and you're close to 300 net cost for everything. Not too bad considering similar performance intel builds cost 300+ for the processor alone.

Looks like a good deal especially since I'm from California (no tax). Only reason I'm debating on pulling the trigger or not is because of the reviews on the mobo. A lot of mixed/bad reviews. I don't want to spend money on replacing to OC safely it not to mention probably having to replace the PSU too.

I'm not very tech savvy, but would you recommend this for gaming?
If so, what graphics card would be a suitable? I'd do the research myself but I don't really know where to start and I don't want this deal to expire by the time I know.

I'm not very tech savvy, but would you recommend this for gaming?
If so, what graphics card would be a suitable? I'd do the research myself but I don't really know where to start and I don't want this deal to expire by the time I know.

Odds are most video cards will be the bottleneck in this system until you hit the $250ish price range for a video card. I went with a radeon 7770, which is fine for my purposes ( database & statistical work) but may be a bit light for heavy gaming. generally, the fx8350 cpu should beat an i5 and rival (or beat) an i7 for pure gaming if set up smartly & playing the "right" game.

I'm not very tech savvy, but would you recommend this for gaming?
If so, what graphics card would be a suitable? I'd do the research myself but I don't really know where to start and I don't want this deal to expire by the time I know.

What type of gaming are you going to be doing? Depending on the games and what visual performance you want from it will determine the card you'd want.

R9 270X as mentioned is a decent card for entry level gaming.
R9 280X if you want 1080P gaming with most everything cranked up with decent frame rates in high action games.
R9 290X if you need everything cranked to maximum visuals with 60+ FPS at all times.

Sorry about the typos. I have corrected the model numbers. I don't know why I was marking as 7xx for the series.

Last edited by Ryououki; 07-30-2014 at 03:24 PM..
Reason: Fixed the leading number

What type of gaming are you going to be doing? Depending on the games and what visual performance you want from it will determine the card you'd want.

R9 770X as mentioned is a decent card for entry level gaming.
R9 780X if you want 1080P gaming with most everything cranked up with decent frame rates in high action games.
R9 790X if you need everything cranked to maximum visuals with 60+ FPS at all times.

I'm not a stickler for crazy high frame rates or high resolution. (I can't afford to be as I am a broke student) I pretty much just need card that can handle Diablo 3, League of Legends, and possibly Titanfall. Oh and did you mean R9 270x, 280x, and 290x? I can't find the cards you're talking about.

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I would personally opt for radeon in this case, as amd also owns the radeon brand and they have presumably optimized the communication between these components.

plus radeons tend to be cheaper than nvidia. my case in point - here is the specific card I went with

m.tigerdirect.com/products/3199442

it should handily beat the nvidia 640s you posted across all dimensions, and it is the same price or cheaper than the 640s you posted as well

I'm so sorry, I had initially found the Sapphire but then found a radeon card that was also r9 270x

What type of gaming are you going to be doing? Depending on the games and what visual performance you want from it will determine the card you'd want.

R9 770X as mentioned is a decent card for entry level gaming.
R9 780X if you want 1080P gaming with most everything cranked up with decent frame rates in high action games.
R9 790X if you need everything cranked to maximum visuals with 60+ FPS at all times.

Not sure if weird Hybrid AMD/Nvidia GPU from an alternate universe, or confusing terminology.

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